Show TWO PROVEN SIRES LOST TO FARMERS when are dairymen going to use proven sires instead of 0 untried bull calves asks D L fout field dairy man with tho the university of idaho agricultural ri extension dial division ioa when also will dairymen keep a promising young bull until testing records have either cither proved his worth or indicated him worthless then he relates how dairymen proved two sires to in idaho without It bout knowing it and turned them to butchers just fig as they were nea ing the age of greatest usefulness association records from canyon county show that seven daughters ot of one jersey bull produced produce pounds of milk and pounds of butterfat each more than their thear dams this bull was butchered before the daughters freshened art and was not given an opportunity to prove his north the owner stated that every daughter 0 of this bull in later ter excelled her dam dain because he wanted another bull and thought he needed one the herd sire proven but not recognized as such was SOW sold to the butcher this dairyman has been sorry e ever eer ver since writes 0 A fitzgerald of utah in the datry dairy farmer the gooding county idaho tester Is encouraging dairymen to be cautious in any move to dispose of a theoretically oreti cally colly good bull that eliat has hag not been given a full chance the tester re ports the story of a holstein II sire ii whose hose daughters produce 1005 1003 pounds of milk and 1355 G ia pounds of butterfat more than their dams but which was turned to an inglorious end before his bis value was known cow testing associations records so far tabulated show that about one third of the purebred pure bred sires are lowering production of their daughters to in comparison with their dams about one third tire are holding their own on or in ce casing slightly and tile the great increase as Is coming froni from the last third the higher the herd production the more difficult it Is to bring increases hence the greater need tor for a bull of pro proved ved ability reasons mr fourt the cow testing association record shows vilt without hout guesswork which bulls bull should be kept and which should go to the butcher it if these a proven proven sires are to be of value to the dairy industry they must be alive and in service and not butchered insists the idaho dairy leader |